Hamilton Medical Center Receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation
6/5/2006

Keith Jennings
706.272.6118

Dalton, GA – Hamilton Medical Center received full accreditation from the Accreditation Review Committee making it the seventh accredited Chest Pain Center in Georgia and the 243rd in the nation.

According to Hamilton President and CEO John Bowling, “The Chest Pain Center at Hamilton Medical Center has demonstrated its expertise and commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding a wide set of stringent criteria and completing on-site evaluations by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.”

Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the U.S. with 600,000 dying annually of heart disease. More than five million Americans visit hospitals each year with chest pain. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to significantly reduce the mortality rate of these patients by teaching the public to recognize and react to the early symptoms of a possible heart attack, reduce the time it takes to receive treatment and increase the accuracy and effectiveness of treatment.

The Chest Pain Center’s protocol-driven and system approach to patient management allows physicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack, when treatments are most effective and to better monitor patients when it is not clear whether they are having a coronary event. Such observation helps ensure that a patient is neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.

With the rise of Chest Pain Centers came the need to establish standards designed to improve the consistency and quality of care provided to patients. The Society’s accreditation process insures centers meet or exceed quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine.

About the Society of Chest Pain Centers

The Society of Chest Pain Centers is a patient centric non-profit international professional organization focused on improving care for patients with acute coronary syndromes and other related maladies. Established in 1998, the Society is dedicated to patient advocacy and focusing on ischemic heart disease. Central to its mission is the question, “What is right for the patient?” In answer, the Society promotes protocol-based medicine, often delivered through a Chest Pain Center model to address the diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, and to promote the adoption of process improvement science by health care providers. To best fulfill this mission, the Society provides accreditation to facilities striving for optimum Chest Pain Center care. The Society of Chest Pain Centers is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

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